BOY.
Father.
Sir.
General.
The God Killer.
Kratos brother, you have earned a righteous part in my heart.
Yesterday midnight, I completed God of War – Ragnarock and for me it is an absolute 10/10 game.
Should’ve won Game of the Year, but I haven’t played Elden Ring yet so can’t say anything but even if I would’ve played Elden Ring, I believe GoW Ragnarock would still be my GOTY pick.
I cried 4 times when playing the final mission and the HUG in the end? Perfect.
I was waiting for THAT hug for 25 or so hours.
I feel like a changed man. I know dramatic but that’s true.
The emotions, straight up quotes like dialogues, the character development was absolutely phenomenal.
We got to see the Kratos’ Human side of things. Of how a person you love changes everything even your nature, your fate, your destiny.
Kratos in GoW Ragnaock, embodies all the fathers in the world. They want to make their children strong before they leave this beautiful planet.
Death can have me when it earns me ~ Kratos
Literal goosebumps. Kratos bhaiiii, sorry “Sir”, you absolute-fucking-straight-to-the-point-motherfucker. If I put together the dialogues of Kratos in a book then its title would be “Meditations by the God of War”. Literally felt like I am playing a Stoic Book game lol
Ofcourse Christopher Judge as Kratos did an incredible job but Sunny Suljic OH my literal BOY, someone did an impeccable job. Such emotional depth in voice acting at such an young age? You have outdone yourself brother.
The 25 hours of GoW, was a honest-to-god felt like journey. After beating the game, the time was at around 1:10am – 1:15am but I couldn’t sleep…. I watched the GOTY speeches of Christopher Judge, the awards it got and back to back watched the 3 GoW of Zanny – amazing dude, I love him.
As I was watching the first video, I realized how far and how many layers of storytelling deep I was when playing GoW Ragnarock.
From finding Tyr in Svartalfheim to finding out Tyr was not even real. It was Odin all along. LOTS of jaw-dropping twists and action pieces later, we captured Odin’s soul in the marble and Sindri blasted the shit out of him.
He literally hammered him away for good.
The performances by Brok and especially Sindri, was exceptional too. Sindri’s last “I’m Sorry” monologue was like Marvel’s Spider-Man first game’s aunt may scene. “Hitting” every spot of my heart.
Killing Thor was literally out of nowhere (see what I did there. You didn’t thought that a Thor part was coming didn’t you… hahaha)
You know I was practicing my Storytelling skills and for that I was reading a book, Storyworthy – Matthew Dicks and in that he wrote that, every story’s core should be a change. A transformation. A emotion. If you could strip away everything from that story like Odin, action pieces, side characters, would you still have a story? If yes, then really you got a story.
In GoW both games, ripping everything apart, it is story of a Father and a Son.
Father training the son to be better.
And the emotional they go through this “journey” (aka the game).
Taking a lot of screenshots and video clips and memories out of this game.
Took me 15 days to complete it. Each and every day I looked forward to play this game. There was not even a single dull moment because Mimir, my favorite side character, everything interesting with his “silly stories” (Mimir: Sergun, my love. Sirgun: Mi amor Mimir…… soo sorry lol)
So yeah, waited 3 years to play this game. I didn’t watched any spoliers or gameplay clips. I was literally unaware of everthing and OH BOY this game suprised me plenty.
The culmination of love is grief. And yet we love despite the inevitable, we open our hearts to it. When the pyre is spent and you’ve gathered my ashes, spread them from the highest peak in all the realms. You will do this for me. To grieve deeply… is to have loved fully. Open your heart to the world as you have opened it to me, and you will find every reason to keep living in it.
This is what then Kratos told Atreus in the end and the prophecy changed because
Fate only binds you if you let it. Do what is necessary, not because it is written. I was wrong, Atreus… Open your heart to their suffering. Today, today… we will be better.” This marks the moment they decide to prioritize saving lives over achieving vengeance, effectively breaking the “prophecy” that predicted Kratos would die and Atreus would serve Odin.
When the Norns tell Kratos that he is predictable because of his nature, he realizes that the only way to “break” fate is to change his own behavior and at the climax of the game, Kratos changes the course of the war by telling that to Atreus…
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So after completing the game, there was goosebumps all over my body. From back to front.
I stood up, gave an standing ovation to the team. Cheers, for such a masterpiece
There was an old man who chopped wood for his village. Every evening, he bore the logs on his back and delivered them to his people. But the logs were heavy, and he grew weaker as time went. Then one day, he threw down the logs, as he could no longer bear their weight, and he called for Death to come to him. And when Death arrived, he asked why the old man had called for him. Seeing Death before him caused the old man to reconsider his request. After a moment, he asked that Death help him lift the logs onto his back, so that he may continue on his journey.
~ Dewansh Jain; 29-12-2025 10:30 am